Health care : Berliner hospitals are equipped for terrorist attacks

The attack on the Christmas market to assess distinctness at the wide place in front of almost two years has placed clinics in Berlin at the time, prior to significant logistical challenges. The health care guarantee also in exceptional situations such as terrorist attacks, Commissioner of health Senator Dilek Kolat (SPD), Berlin's Charité hospital to develop a special emergency surgical kit with surgical instruments. "In the case of terrible events, not just every second, but also the best possible equipment for Recording counts for the wounded hospitals with medical equipment," said Kolat on Monday at the launch of the new equipment.

Berlin has increased in the double budget 2018/19 funding for the health protection of the population of 65000 to € 1.2 million. With this money, until the spring of 2019 all of the emergency should be equipped the hospitals with the so-called Berlin-emergency-screen. The special OP-the Set is designed, the various injuries of the multiple injuries, to provide at the same time with only one Set. A total of 72 screens will be distributed to 24 hospitals.

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On Monday Kolat handed the first emergency screen at the Virchow-Klinikum of the Charité hospital, where the 19.December 2016, six seriously wounded soldiers were treated. "On the evening of the attack we had left at the end of a surgical sieve. Still more of the wounded would come, it would have been with the supply is difficult,“ said the medical Director of the Charité, Ulrich. "We hope that we are in need of the emergency screens never."

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